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Verdicts & Settlements

Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook specializes in the representation of individuals involved in serious injury and death claims resulting from accidents of all types, including product failures (defects), workplace injuries, automobile accidents, air crashes, and professional medical negligence. Listed below are some examples of cases successfully litigated by our firm:

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Featured Verdicts & Settlements
 

  • $80 Million Recovery in Toxic Exposure Suit
    Oil company ignores toxic chemical leak for weeks; exposes 6,000 local residents to dangerous compound that causes ongoing respiratory problems. CMS&C helps victims recover $80 million.
  • $20 Million Recovery for Clergy Sexual Abuse Victims
    Victims of clergy sexual abuse speak out in adulthood after years of silent suffering. CMS&C helps victims recover over $20 million decades after the crimes were committed.
  • $4.95 Million Recovery in Sexual Harassment/Discrimination Case Against Police Department, 2009 - Sexual discrimination against female police officers by Bay Area police agency.
  • $3.75 Million Defective Jack Stand
    Collapse of a defective jack stand causes the death of a husband with two young children.
  • $3.5 Million Recovery in Auto Death Case, 2009. Bay Area health care worker killed when struck by oncoming vehicle.
  • $3.45 Million Recovery in Auto Accident Case, 2004
    Auto rear end collision. Client sustains severe back injury requiring multiple surgeries and resulting in near paralysis.
  • $3.3 Million Recovery in Racial Discrimination Case Against Food Producer, 2003
    Racial discrimination against large food producer conglomerate for failure to promote and ignoring racial insults and threats.
  • $3.25 Million Recovery for Traumatic Head Injury, 2002
    Private airplane overruns runway during landing and strikes automobile, causing major head injury.
  • $3 Million Refinery Explosion; Death Case, 2000
    Worker dies of severe burns after explosion and fire at local oil refinery.
  • $2.85 Million Recovery for Boating Accident Victim, 2007 
    Young man who fell from pleasure boat suffers arm amputation.
  • $2.78 Million Head-On Collision
    Family survives head-on collision, but serious injuries debilitate former police officer. CMS&C helps family recover $2.78 million damages.
  • $2.5 Million Settlement in Scaffold Collapse, 2008
    Iron worker suffers severe ankle injury.
  • $2.5 Million Vehicle Rollover, Stability, Crashworthiness, Head Injury, 2003
    Driver of an SUV lost control of vehicle when she fell asleep at the wheel when returning from a camping trip. She awoke and attempted to regain control, but the vehicle rolled over and plaintiff, a rear seat passenger, sustained a head injury requiring several weeks of hospitalization. Defective product case based on instability of SUV.
  • $2.3 Million Recovery for Auto/Truck Drunk Driving Accident, 2000
    Plaintiff was one of several teenagers who were driving in Fairfield when they were hit broadside by a tractor trailer being driven by an intoxicated truck driver.
  • $2.65 Million Gender Discrimination Against Police Department, 1999
    Gender discrimination and sexual harassment involving female police officers.
  • $2 Million Recovery in Highway Design Case, 2004
    Improperly designed state highway contributes to collision of automobile and van.
  • $2 Million Recovery in Insurance Fraud Case, 2000
    Life insurance policy holders fraudulently switched to different policies with higher premiums. Class action filed. Recovery for clients and injunction against future conduct.
  • $1.9 Million Recovery in Pedestrian Death, 2006 
    University Professor killed in accident by delivery truck on U.C. Campus.
  • $1.5 Million
    Law enforcement officer ignores traffic signals, causes collision, and leaves young woman with severe head trauma. CMS&C helps victim obtain $1.5 million damages.
  • $1.425 Million Vehicle Rollover
    Canadian couple's dream vacation turns into a nightmare after serious auto accident leaves wife disabled. CMS&C helps injured parties recover damages and financial help for the future.
  • $1.25 Million Settlement, 2000
    A California jail staff's neglect of a 35-year-old male schizophrenic's medical needs leads to attempted suicide that leaves him in a vegetative state. Jury verdict finds negligence as the cause.
  • $1.171 Million Recovery after Construction Accident; Death Case, 2001
    Jury verdict in construction accident; death of husband and father.
  • $1 Million Police Shooting
    Police shoot Asian man to death in front of his wife. CMS&C helps family prove civil rights violations and win a $1 million recovery.
  • $1 Million Sexual Harassment By School District, 2005
    Teachers sexually harassed by school custodian complain to school administrators for protection and are ignored.